Building the Source Code

Quick Start

We are still working on creating a binary distribution. Once that's created
we will update these instructions to work off that distribution. Until then,
they will be based on a built source distribution.

Running an Apollo Broker

A broker with a web based admin interface will be started by using the the
Scala REPL console.

You can point your web browser at http://localhost:8080/ to explore the
management structure of the broker. Additional status objects will become
visible once there are connected client which cause connections and
destination management objects to be created.

The above creates a client variable which allows you to customize all the
displayed properties. Those properties control how the client applies load
to the STOMP broker. You could change the client configuration so that
it uses messages with 20 byte contents and send and receive on topics instead
of queues: